Making sure your financial messages are fully received
Next course
- 11 – 13 June 2012, Geneva, Switzerland
Registration and course fees
Registration and payment deadline: 4 June 2012. Early bird fee available for payments until 11 April 2012.
Early bird fee / Full fee:
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To register, please fill in the online registration form, or download the form and send it to us by email. For further inquiries, please contact us.
Course overview
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This three-day course in Building bridges in financial communication aims to equip participants to communicate effectively about financial management with a variety of stakeholders, including donors, beneficiaries, finance and non-finance staff and trustees.
Who should attend
It is for anyone needing to communicate financial information, and/or structure their organisation to make sure this happens. It would be particularly appropriate for finance staff, programme staff, managers and heads of organisations, and fundraisers – whether working nationally or internationally. It will be helpful for those who recognise their need to communicate more effectively about finance, and those wanting an insight into how finance people communicate.
How you and your organisation will benefit – Learning Objectives
Much of the decision making in non-profit organisations revolves around sound financial management information. Do we have enough funding to carry out our programme? Do we have ‘good enough’ financial information to take an informed decision? How can we maximise our income by attracting new funders? What is the ‘true cost’ of what we are doing? Are we financially sustainable? The course aims to make sure that finance and non-finance staff alike, are able to better influence these decisions through good communication with each other and their stakeholders.
If communication about finance is of a high standard, then it can lead to better informed decision-making, good relationships with donors and more sustainable funding, and crucially more effective programme work.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Recognise the challenges and opportunities for communication about finance.
- Identify cultural differences between ‘finance’ and ‘non-finance’ people and other stakeholders – across the world and across the office.
- Communicate clearly about financial topics using practical skills.
- Design strategies to allow financial communication to improve the impact of organisational and programme management.
- Write a financial communication strategy.
Course programme
| Day 1 | Welcome Challenges and opportunities with financial communication
Finance and non-finance relationships
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| Day 2 | International variations
Working with different stakeholders
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| Day 3 | Communicating in specific situations
Presenting and training with financial information
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The course will be in workshop format and will comprise lectures, facilitated discussions and case studies (about half of the course time). Participants should expect to be challenged and they would be asked to have a very participative approach. For the case studies, participants will work on their own projects, therefore it is highly recommended that they bring along all relevant information and documents (unless confidential) and existing fundraising and communication materials (letters, brochures, reports, pictures, testimonials) for a current or forthcoming project to be funded.
Individual consultation
As a participant, you can obtain an individual consultation from the trainer during the course on how to further develop a project of your own, or on another subject of your choice.
